he Klompus Family Foundation makes mini-grants of up to $500, and full grants of up to $3,000 to established non-profit agencies and eligible organizations which provide services targeted to marginalized and at-risk women and girls in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Agencies need not be geared specifically to serving this population; in fact, we hope to encourage development of programs, services, and partnerships by a wide variety of providers. By way of example, an agency, working with special needs youth, might want to:

         Take a group of girls on a field trip to the
                    National Women’s History Museum
         Organize an “empowerment weekend” at
                    a camp facility
         Perhaps a church wants to partner with a
                    local business/professional women’s
                    organization to provide mentoring
                    services to women in their congregation
                    who are re-entering the workforce.
         A community organization recognizes a need
                    for volunteers to visit homebound elderly
                    women. They might organize a group of
                    isolated teenage girls as volunteers, or they
                    might contact the Foundation with the idea
                    to see if we are aware of a group looking
                    for a project for their clientele.
         A school might see a need to establish a group
                    for adolescent girls who are at risk of
                    dropping out.

We welcome you to contact us with your ideas and are happy to assist you in fine-tuning them into projects for consideration. We consider grant requests for: specific projects, programs or events; publications and outreach; experiential and educational activities. The projects should empower, develop new skills or capacity, decrease isolation or provide exposure to new experience.

We are unable to financially support sponsorships, fund raising events, capital campaigns, political or lobbying campaigns, nor can we make grants to individuals.